Quercus Books

‘Three Seconds’ – book and film?

Tomorrow sees the widely anticipated UK paperback release of New York Times bestseller Three Seconds (www.3secs.co).

Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström’s blistering novel is fast-paced, action-packed and highly addictive. It is an essential read for lovers of Stieg Larsson and, indeed, all crime fiction fans.

Whilst we really adore the book – and it has passionate, evangelistic readers all over the world – we’ve always thought it would also make an exciting, heart-pounding film.

And then yesterday came this exciting news…

From the Deadline New York website:

The book-to-movie business is kicking back into gear. Hoping for another Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, New Regency has just acquired Three Seconds, part of a bestselling Swedish crime novel series by Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström. Shine will produce and they will set a writer quickly.

In Three Seconds, an ex-con who works undercover for the Stockholm police is charged with breaking the Polish mob’s stranglehold on amphetamine dealing in Sweden prisons. The ex-con gets himself arrested so he can infiltrate the mob in a maximum security prison. Beyond the fact his wife is unaware he’s working undercover, the operative’s challenge is to crack the ring and get out before he’s exposed.

The book is the fifth novel in the series, was named Sweden’s top crime novel of 2009. The author team is intriguing, considering one’s a former journalist, the other an ex-criminal.The book was published by Silver Oak [in the US, and Quercus in the UK]. Regency’s Michelle Kroes brought it in and Dan Wilson is supervising.

Three Seconds: the website

You’ve seen the trailers (one, two and three) now it’s time to visit the Three Seconds website:

Three Seconds: part three

You’ve seen one and two, now here’s the third and final Three Seconds trailer:

Three Seconds: part two

Seven Days Until Three Seconds

30 September is traditionally an important day in history:

1399 – Henry IV proclaimed King of England

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims

1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit sixty home runs in a season

30 September 2010 will combine the significance of these events, as the new kings of crime, Roslund and Hellström, step up to the plate and release the groundbreaking Three Seconds; a book we hope will draw a big reaction from readers and critics alike.

We are counting down the days until next Thursday, and hope you are too.

In the meantime, please check out our first Three Seconds teaser, the second of which will follow shortly…